Wyrdness said:
Thing is I don't think NX will be BC mainly due to how it required its own version of BOTW, if it does have BC it may be through emulation of some sort as having the hardware in the platform bumps costs up and Iwata noted that NX's ecosystem used Wii U as a base. Under what Ruby is claiming in order to bring out the platform they're bringing they've had to make compromises like having a smaller storage (although it'll very likely support external storage like the Wii U and it obviously won't have mandatory installs), all of this is to minimize costs and price. |
Iwata said that NX would have to absorb the Wii U architecture. That might be through emulation, but it could also be through an actual included chip as other systems have done in the past. Since Wii U sold horribly, there is probably a good business case for Nintendo to port most if not all of the software to NX as quickly as possible. There could be an argument for including the physical hardwre in some form.
With BOTW, they never said it "required its own version". They said it will get its own version, which will be the same game experience with better visuals. Pretty standard, but gives no indication of different architecture, only better performance.
